“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Pedro Morisco had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Emanuel Brítez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
60 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Coritiba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquín Lavega is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Coritiba, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Coritiba, and both men came out saying it was fine.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
Supporters make their feelings known about Pedro Morisco
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Coritiba would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
Millonarios paid $4.8M and Coritiba took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Mirassol did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $1.7M for Igor Formiga, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Kaike is living that version at Coritiba, and it tends to show in the first month.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.2M — a club that wants Luis Eduardo enough to be asked twice.
The phone has started ringing about Facundo Jáuregui again, and this time the name on the line is Treze. Coritiba are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Coritiba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matheus Bianqui is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Arthur Araujo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 108 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The offer from Ceará for Rodrigues was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $204.8K — a club that wants Maik enough to be asked twice.
Mirassol offered $170.0K; Corinthians said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Add another name to the list: Ypiranga have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Daniel Borges. The answer from Mirassol has not changed — yet.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alesson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alesson was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Flamengo in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Igor Formiga trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Mirassol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alesson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
9 combined actions and 6.95. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mirassol, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Daniel Carvalho chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
In brief
The dugoutSomebody else is better right now than Daniel Borges
36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Mirassol lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mirassol will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Maranhão tried to reorganise, Mirassol did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.